From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add support for more dell-wmi hotkeys Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:18:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20090421191817.GA9419@srcf.ucam.org> References: <49ECBAE2.2080308@dell.com> <49EE09D9.2060209@dell.com> <20090421183100.GA8120@srcf.ucam.org> <49EE1945.2080808@dell.com> <20090421191242.GA8445@srcf.ucam.org> <49EE1B9F.2030504@dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:51077 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755109AbZDUTSU (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:18:20 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49EE1B9F.2030504@dell.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mario Limonciello Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > Hi Matthew: > > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Hm. But if we get the scancode, presumably we can do this anyway? > > > Yes, this information might not be as useful on Linux as it is for the > Windows situation. On Windows, the WMI event doesn't translate directly > into a key, but rather a userspace application makes the changes. As it > stands right now, the keys still don't do anything with my patch(s). > They're at least documented however in case someone would like to change > this behavior at some point. Ok. As long as there's a way of determining when a platform no longer sends scancodes (and so we can switch to WMI delivery), then that seems fine. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org